Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks

Session title: Walking the talk on localisation in nutrition clusters

Organizer(s): bstevens@unicef.org; ahumphreys@actioncontrelafaim.ca

30 Apr 24 11:00-12:30 UTC+1

SessionAbstract

Session abstract
Over the last years, calls for humanitarian agencies and donors to be ‘as local as possible, and as international as necessary’ have dominated dialogue within the humanitarian space, with discourse on how this aim can be achieved. Despite efforts towards this aim, Local and National Actors (LNAs) access to and meaningful participation, representation, and leadership in the humanitarian coordination system remains varied and limited. The advantages and gains of cluster coordination that is meaningfully inclusive of local and national actors cannot be overemphasized and it is therefore important that cluster coordination mechanisms support meaningful efforts on localizations.
This session will present the jointly developed Global Nutrition Cluster (GNC) localisation roadmap for 2024-2025, as well as best practices and lessons learnt in promoting localisation within nutrition coordination mechanisms (cluster and sector).
Session outcome
To share learnings in promoting localisation within nutrition clusters in different contexts and to launch the Global Nutrition Cluster localisation roadmap.

Session background information
The Global Nutrition Cluster envisions that by the end of 2025, the nutritional status of the most vulnerable people is protected in countries at risk of, or with, situations of fragility. Localisation is one of the key areas that is accelerating the achievement of the GNC vision and goals. In collaboration with its members including local and national actors, the GNC developed a localisation roadmap based on lessons learnt from different contexts and best-fit practices. This Roadmap will complement the second-term of the GNC Strategy from 2024-2025. The session will focus on:
1. The launch of the Global Nutrition Cluster localisation roadmap
2. Sharing localisation good practices, challenges, and lessons learnt in promoting localisation in nutrition clusters

Agenda

1. Welcome remarks – 5 mins

2. Launch of the global nutrition cluster localisation roadmap – 15 mins

3. Perspectives on the roadmap from panelists – 30 mins

4. Discussions and Q&A session – 30 mins

5. Wrap up – 5 mins

Speakers

Global Nutrition Cluster representative

National level cluster representative

Local and National Actor representative